Abstract
Ultrasonic wall thickness monitoring using permanently installed sensors has become a tool to monitor pipe wall thicknesses online and during plant operation. This talk aims to give a short introduction to the benefits and drivers of the technology as well as the technical challenges that had to be overcome during the development of the waveguide sensor that is Permasense Ltd.’s flagship product. The presentation will present the underlying measurement principle and then give some more detail on key parameters that influence the measurement, such as temperature and surface morphology. It will also be shown how these effects can be managed. Some example data of application used in industry will be presented and the paper will end with a look into the near future and describe technology that will become available soon.
V-1669-15.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
ASTM Standard E797/E797M-10 (2010) Standard practice for measuring thickness by manual ultrasonic pulse-echo contact method. ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA. DOI:10.1520/E0797_E0797M-10
EN14127:2011 (2011) Non-destructive testing. Ultrasonic thickness measurement. European Standard, CEN, Brussels
www.permasense.com. Last accessed 14 August 2015
Yi W-G, Lee M-R, Lee J-H, Lee S-H (2006) A study on the ultrasonic thickness measurement of wall thinned pipe in nuclear power plants. In: 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on NDT, Auckland, New Zealand
Gajdacsi A (2015) High accuracy ultrasonic degradation monitoring. PhD thesis, Mechanical Engineering Department, Imperial College London
Gajdacsi A, Cegla F (2013) High accuracy wall thickness loss monitoring. In: Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, AIP Conference Proceedings 1581, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, pp. 1687–1694
Gajdacsi A, Cegla F (2015) Ultrasonic wall loss monitoring of rough surfaces. In: Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, AIP Conference Proceedings 1650, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, pp. 856–862
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Cegla, F. (2018). Ultrasonic Monitoring of Corrosion with Permanently Installed Sensors (PIMS). In: Chapuis, B., Sjerve, E. (eds) Sensors, Algorithms and Applications for Structural Health Monitoring. IIW Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69233-3_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69233-3_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-69232-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-69233-3
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)